DEC
2
2004

Now I can browse faster in KickPim

Submitted by Duncan Mac-Vicar P.

After upgrading my kdepim to HEAD (nicely, I did a PKGBUILD for archlinux that grabs and builds it). I started to fill my kabc pictures with the nice kde:KPixmapRegionSelectorDialog from Antonio and other developers (This dialog should be used in Kopete to select the MSN display picture for instance) (yes I coded a similar one too and then realized it was already commited). Then I modified the nice applet kickpim (I can't live without it) to show the kabc pictures. Kopete contact list should be next victim. Even KMail's quick address selector is a good candidate. Any place where you look for a person quickly is a good candidate if you can match faces instead of reading the name.

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Comments

It's a good idea to integrate pictures in contact list :), the wishlist report for this is : http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80566

An another good idea is to access display picture from the style xsl sheet => http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92579 because I use this chat window style => http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=11265

By GASC Ludovic at Thu, 12/02/2004 - 10:33

Great stuff. This kind of functionality does a good job of demonstrating the power of kabc and kopete integration. Thanks for you work.

Bobby

By Bobby at Thu, 12/02/2004 - 19:41

I add my thanx :D

By superstoned at Thu, 12/02/2004 - 21:23

I hope you noticed that screenie its KickPim, not Kopete. Kopete will be my next victim :-)

By Duncan Mac-Vicar P. at Fri, 12/03/2004 - 03:07

But still... its totally sweat!

By Bobby at Mon, 12/06/2004 - 21:49

anyway, Kopete contact list is finished too, see my recent blog

By Duncan Mac-Vicar P. at Wed, 12/08/2004 - 01:23

I am also a KDE developer who uses ArchLinux. Glad I'm not the only one :)

By mxcl at Sat, 12/04/2004 - 04:28